Pages

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Socks for All

I’m happily wearing a freshly knit pair of socks today. The
pastel socks that I’ve written about over the last two weeks are done!

They fit perfectly and make me smile when I see them. It was
an enjoyable and relaxing project, which was exactly what I needed for this busy
time of year.

I also started another quick project this week:

Seeing the pieces like that makes me giggle. Can you guess
what they are?

Our dining room has a wooden floor, so we have self-adhesive
felt disks on the feet of the chairs. With one chair in particular, the disks
continually come off. Tired of the hassle, I made a set of chair socks!

Most patterns that you can find online call for chair socks
to be only about three inches long, but the feet on our chairs have wide shapes
that are a little trickier to fit. The socks for the narrower back feet are
about 4.5 inches long, while the bulkier front feet needed socks that are about
5 1/2 inches long. I used some wool from my stash, Full o’ Sheep from Stitch
Nation by Debbie Stoller in the colorway Meadow (now discontinued), on
US-5 (3.75 mm) double point needles. Each sock is a simple K2, P2 rib worked in
the round with enough stitches to snugly fit on the chair legs.

So far, the chair socks are doing the trick; they’re staying
on and preventing the floor from being scuffed. Although it was a quick project
for one chair, I want to give it a few weeks before I decide whether to make
socks for the other five dining room chairs. I want to be sure that the yarn
holds up relatively well so knitting chair socks doesn’t become my new ongoing
hassle.